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“Out of my windows” from the Highrise project

When Canadian National Film Board launched its interactive project Highrise it called it ” a multi-year, multi-media, collaborative documentary project about the human experience in global vertical suburbs. We will use the acclaimed interventionist and participatory approaches of the award-winning National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker-in-Residence (FIR) project. Our scale will be global, but rooted firmly in the [...]

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“The Wilderness Downtown” – experimenting with HTML5

Rock band Arcade Fire, together with Google and artist Chris Milk, have launched an interactive video that uses HTML5 set to the band’s track “We Used to Wait”. This experimental interactive music video is called”The Wilderness Downtown”  and has nothing to do with documentary…. except for the fact that it uses HTML 5 in a [...]

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Deutsche Welle TV tries webdocumentaries

A reader sent me this link to what he called “Deutsche Welle’s first interactive documentary”. Saving Papua New Guinea’s  Forests is an interesting webdocumentary about climate change and deforestation. Nothing particularly new in terms of form and interactive style (it actually reminds me quite a lot French webdocumentary Journey to the End of Coal) but [...]

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Access All Areas symposium

I have just participated to the Access All Areas Symposium in Bristol. The recently created Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC) had organised a one day event around user generated content and I did a presentation on the effect of user generated content on the interactive documentary form. You can have a look to the programme [...]

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A web-documentary search tool !!

This is great news – although it is only for French speaking people: a French site that specialized on web-documentary has created a search tool that looks for interactive projects on the web! Forget Google, just use their custom made option!
Have a look to  http://linterview.fr/new-reporter/le-moteur-de-recherche-du-web-documentaire/ and type any topic or location… and a list of [...]

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This website is both an archive and a discussion forum for those interested in Interactive Documentaries. It also documents my journey while doing a PhD. Feel free to browse and comment, but especially... DO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ARCHIVE!

Latest addition to the Interactive Documentary Archive

GDP: measuring the human side of the Canadian economic crisis

2010
By: NFB of Canada
Project type: Web collaborative
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PhD Mosaic

NormandieErnesto Neto at the Hayward galleryJewish memorial, BerlinStrech - physical & mental
ZKM visit with LCC studentsIl giardino degli aranci - RomaP1000990Kinetica art fair 2010
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Latest entry in the PhD Blog

mountains and complexity

Monday, 30 August 2010

I have spent a great, and super long, summer holiday with my family in Italy and France. The five books that I took with me for once did not stay in m go to PhD Blog